Training shoe snobbery

[subaqua]

i am pleading the patrick defence.

 

[Accy cyclist]

[QUOTE 3586369, member: 76"]You deserve to be mocked for wearing training shoes when not training.

If you were shopping or attending a dental appointment you should wear appropriate footwear, a nice brogue or possibly a pair of less formal shoes if it was the weekend, and at an absolute push to the limits of acceptability an 'approach shoe', but in those, to be honest, you should be walking and not on the bus.[/QUOTE]

I rarely wear shirts trousers jeans jumpers and jackets leather shoes etc. Most of it is to do with how i see myself in a mirror. Because i'm thin/slim i see myself as i was when i was a skinny teen in the 1970's. Those horrible images of me wearing flared jeans and big collared shirts have stuck in my mind. If i wear shirts and trousers(especially lose fitting ones) i see a skinny wimp,if i wear sporty clothes i see an athletic type in the mirror.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

What an eye opening thread ! I do my best to ignore youths in the street, I don't give a monkey's what they think about what I'm wearing, or what they think about anything in fact. I find it amazing that anyone over the age of 16 would take any notice of them and even more amazing that they would speak to them about their comments. And I don't wear trainers in any case

I know, and get all the fashion victims here too, dissin' my Crocs too, pah, the cheek of it!!

 

[SteCenturion]

I know, and get all the fashion victims here too, dissin' my Crocs/Assylum Slippers too, pah, the cheek of it!!

there, that's better MDB...

here's your shawl...

have a nice little nap..

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

there, that's better MDB...

here's your shawl...

have a nice little nap..

Can't I'm about to perform surgery!

 

[AndyRM]

I wear Crocs around the house, nothing wrong with them..... Except that I am asking what IS wrong with them?

They are f*cking hideous things. They look like perforated Play Do. Around the house is fine, but inflicting those monstrosities on the unwitting public should be punishable by death.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

They are f*cking hideous things. They look like perforated Play Do. Around the house is fine, but inflicting those monstrosities on the unwitting public should be punishable by death.

Why couldn't you just have said that last night!!

 

[AndyRM]

Why couldn't you just have said that last night!!

I was watching Chappie, having some pints and rescuing a Ukrainian tramp on the Metro. An eventful evening.

Reading the thread back I see folk are rating those 5finger examples of hideousness. They should also be shot. Whoever supposed that our toes were to be suffocated by tiny condoms wants a word with themselves.

 

[Fnaar]

I haven't given a to$$ about 'trainers' for so many years now ... however, I can remember when young that 'it' was quite impt (not nec trainers, but make of troozaz, or shoes, r shirts etc, at various times). Regarding trainers, I simply wear brown ones from M&S, kind of 'walking shoe' style. Have done for years.
A friend who is only a few years younger than me is still a bit of a 'fashion victim' and will happily spend £150 on trainers. And insist on listening only to radio 1. He's way outside their demographic, and one day he might realise that radio2 actually plays the music he claims to like best...

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

I haven't given a to$$ about 'trainers' for so many years now ... however, I can remember when young that 'it' was quite impt (not nec trainers, but make of troozaz, or shoes, r shirts etc, at various times). Regarding trainers, I simply wear brown ones from M&S, kind of 'walking shoe' style. Have done for years.
A friend who is only a few years younger than me is still a bit of a 'fashion victim' and will happily spend £150 on trainers. And insist on listening only to radio 1. He's way outside their demographic, and one day he might realise that radio2 actually plays the music he claims to like best...

I'm no fashion victim, but I much prefer 6 Music

 

[Piemaster]

Well, I'll wear them with pride, and if I ever meet you and you slag them off, I will give you a good kick..... Oh, no, wait, I might injure myself..... I'll just call you a nobber!!

No chance of kicking me.
You'll never catch me wearing Crocs, unless I'm laughing too much at the sight of you trying to run in them

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

No chance of kicking me.
You'll never catch me wearing Crocs, unless I'm laughing too much at the sight of you trying to run in them

You Nobber!!

 

[Piemaster]

I rarely wear shirts trousers jeans jumpers and jackets leather shoes etc. Most of it is to do with how i see myself in a mirror. Because i'm thin/slim i see myself as i was when i was a skinny teen in the 1970's. Those horrible images of me wearing flared jeans and big collared shirts have stuck in my mind. If i wear shirts and trousers(especially lose fitting ones) i see a skinny wimp,if i wear sporty clothes i see an athletic type in the mirror.

What do you actually wear then? Toga? Bearskin? Leotard?

Hang on. It's lycra isn't it? Never go anywhere unless dressed in full team kit.
(Bit jealous here, wish I was slim enough to look good in lycra)

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

What do you actually wear then? Toga? Bearskin? Leotard?

He wears nothing but a smile.

Hang on. It's lycra isn't it? Never go anywhere unless dressed in full team kit.
(Bit jealous here, wish I was slim enough to look good in lycra)

I imagine your name is a bit of a giveaway there!

 

[Fnaar]

I'm no fashion victim, but I much prefer 6 Music

Yes, I wasn't necessarily bigging up radio 2 per se, just saying that my friend is too old for radio 1. Radio 1 wouldn't want him.